Dutch Family Farms Teeter as a Recall of Tainted Eggs Widens
11, 2017
BARNEVELD, the Netherlands — Diligent family farmers like Marjan van de Vis have made the Netherlands the global leader in egg exports.
Ms. van de Vis, whose family farm has around 73,000 chickens, said she had hired the company in January.
Peter said that It’s very typical for the Dutch sector,
As much as 20 percent of Dutch egg-laying chickens may be affected, according to the authorities, costing farmers millions
and damaging the reputation of the roughly 700-million-euro Dutch egg sector.
Tjitte Mastenbroek said that We focused on the eggs, we blocked all the companies that were in database of that company,
" said Ms. van de Vis, who will now have to destroy 100,000 eggs that cannot be sold. that Our beautiful family farm is hanging by a silk thread,
Neither the company nor the men, whose names have not been confirmed by the authorities, have made any statement since the arrests,
and Dutch and Belgian authorities took pains to warn that the investigation was ongoing.
